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Behelit

Sep 22, 2021 @ 10:41am

Snowstorm in mountain biome costs 60 fps

I was venturing in the mountains, mining some silver. A snow storm hit. I went from 80 fps to 20 fps. Nearly got me killed. TP-ed back to my main base after banking the silver at my mountain hideout. my main base ran at 6 fps. This is a new record. Feels like the snow storm genuinely broke my game. Normally my base runs around 70 fps...

Anyone else having insane fps drops during (and eventually after) snowstorms?

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jonnin

Sep 22, 2021 @ 10:52am

Not here. What card are you using, it may help them diagnose?

Crom

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:03am

i have 3 years old very cheap budget PC. All games runs perfectly at MAX. Dunno why people got problems...

Behelit

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:09am

playing on 2k res. 1660TI, ryzen 3900X.
Not sure if it was a fluke but Cyberpunk runs better than Valheim in a snowstorm. Fixed when I restarted the games. Will avoid snow storms i guess...

Lucidess

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:10am

Originally posted by zangori:
i have 3 years old very cheap budget PC. All games runs perfectly at MAX. Dunno why people got problems...

Funny how "very cheap budget PC" can easily mean you didn't pay for it, or it was just average priced and you are rich, or you are just lying, or all of the above. Your definition of budget is strange. I'm assuming you are one of those people that knows a guy that knows a guy that's on the inside floor of the cutting edge video card hardware tech and he will slip the latest video card just for you.

Yeah the snowstorms still suck, the hottub steam drops my FPS too. game runs fine otherwise.

Last edited by Lucidess; Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:12am

SubsidedLemon has Valheim

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:11am

I had a similar thing one time. It tanked my fps (RTX2060) after teleporting. Had to restart the game. You could try fiddling with graphical settings and see what affects the mountain blizzard!

Behelit

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:20am

Thanks for the replies! Glad to see i'm not the only one encountering this issue. I hope the devs have caught wind of this issue aswel.

Bittamin

Sep 22, 2021 @ 11:53am

I absolutely get a sizable drop in snowstorms. Much more than any other weather effect.

Steve

Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:03am

Normally, my rig (RTX 2060 6GB, i5-11400F, 16GB RAM, dedicated game SSD) gets 80-100 FPS everywhere else in the game -- EXCEPT the Mountain biomes, specifically during snowstorms. It's a hard 20-30 FPS then.

I tried messing with every setting over the course of several hours yesterday, matter of fact, trying to figure out what (if anything) could be done to maybe sniff out what's happening there. None of the settings really seemed to have an effect other than general speed-up. I would still be looking at roughly the same percentage of lost FPS. (It'd get up to about 110-120 max with settings dropped to "where we're going we neither need nor want eyes" but drop back down to the 30-50 FPS neighborhood during the snowstorms.)

~70% performance reduction is a very steep dropoff. I can live with it, but my friends refuse to play with me when I build Mountain bases (which are, of course, the best places to build for raids).

Now to build a hot tub and test what happens with the steam...

Last edited by Steve; Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:04am

FTZ35

Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:19am

I think it has to do with the the particles in the snowstorm. Their coding could be better.

Last edited by FTZ35; Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:20am

Behelit

Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:27am

Originally posted by Calteru:
Normally, my rig (RTX 2060 6GB, i5-11400F, 16GB RAM, dedicated game SSD) gets 80-100 FPS everywhere else in the game -- EXCEPT the Mountain biomes, specifically during snowstorms. It's a hard 20-30 FPS then.

I tried messing with every setting over the course of several hours yesterday, matter of fact, trying to figure out what (if anything) could be done to maybe sniff out what's happening there. None of the settings really seemed to have an effect other than general speed-up. I would still be looking at roughly the same percentage of lost FPS. (It'd get up to about 110-120 max with settings dropped to "where we're going we neither need nor want eyes" but drop back down to the 30-50 FPS neighborhood during the snowstorms.)

~70% performance reduction is a very steep dropoff. I can live with it, but my friends refuse to play with me when I build Mountain bases (which are, of course, the best places to build for raids).

Now to build a hot tub and test what happens with the steam...

^ This.
I also took the liberty to mess around with graphical settings when I encountered another snowstorm. None of the settings had any effect unfortunately. Pretty sure the snowstorm isn't working as intended right now. Right now I have to skip anything that induces the snowstorm weather effect as it makes the game unplayable for me.

I also like to add that I sort of recreated the 6 / 4 fps dip after using a teleporter while the weather is changing from snowstorm to in this case meadow weather. If I would run down from my mountain during a snowstorm, get in my TP outpost and TP to my base while the weather is transitioning it results in 4 to 6 fps here until I reboot the game.

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